Mosquito-borne
Diseases
Dengue, Dog Heartworm, EEE, Malaria, SLE, WNV
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Anopheles gambiae mosquito, a malarial vector (photo by James Gathany). Click on the image to access the Public Health Image Library of the CDC for this and other images.
Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit HIV
Dengue Fever Links
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Dengue Fever - NJ State Health Fact Sheet
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Dengue website
Dog Heartworm
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis - NJ State Health Fact Sheet
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Encephalitis outbreak summaries including EEE for the US.
Malaria - 1992 NJMCA Symposium
Malaria Links
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Malaria website
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Malaria Foundation International - the most common and deadly parasitic disease in the world.
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Human Diseases and Insect Vectors - (From Virginia Tech, also covers Plague, Lyme, Scabies. and other arboviral diseases)
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Malaria - NJ State Health Fact Sheet
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Dr. Seuss's Ann Anopheles (from WW2, intended for soldier information sheets, historical)
St. Louis Encephalitis Links
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Regarding outbreaks of SLE (mosquito control applies as well to West Nile)
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) SLE Website
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Encephalitis outbreak summaries including SLE for the US.
West Nile Fever - Species List - Identifying Crows and Hawks - Kestrel ID and Notification
New Jersey:
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West Nile Test Results, West Nile Alert and Facts Sheets - Protocols, guidelines, information by the NJ Department of Health.
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NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission
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NJ Dept Agriculture West Nile Information - Equine oriented.
Links to National and State Surveillance reports (not all sites are updated.)
From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
General Arboviral Information and Encephalitis
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Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance Programs in the US. Provides epidemiological and environmental backgrounds to St. Louis, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. (Requires Acrobat Reader - download free from http://www.adobe.com)
West Nile Fever
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Hubalek's overview of West Nile fever outbreaks in Europe, arthropod vectors, transmission cycles and dead end hosts.
